5/4/2023 0 Comments The book collectorThompson’s gripping narrative invites the reader to solve the mystery of Burnt Island and the true purpose of Max Long’s fellowship. Author: Stephen Kingįractured and lucid as a dream. Author: Ian RankinĪ gothic music video of a novel that whirls with weirdness. Haunting, strange, Kafkaesque, poetic mystery. Author: Fay WeldonĮxpertly combining compelling storytelling with a cleverly constructed, elegant and metaphor-ridden style. Author: Ali SmithĪ high-wire act of a novel. Author: Suzi Feay Source: The Guardian ReviewĪngela Carter crossed with the Scottish diffidence of Muriel Spark. ![]() With its gothic motifs, this dark portrait of a ‘fairytale’ marriage is full of mystery and suspense … an elegant and bloodily shocking entertainment. Author: Alastair Mabbott Source: The Herald ![]() The Book Collector throws the essential elements of the gothic chiller into a blender and what emerges is something between pastiche and critique, in which its author never loses sight of the need to give her readers, first and foremost, an unputdownable yarn. Author: Stephanie Cross Source: The Daily MailĪ brief, but substantial, horror story. The horror master would no doubt approve of this slim Edwardian-era gothic, too, recalling as it does both Rebecca and The Silence Of The Lambs. Author: Stuart Kelly Source: The ScotsmanĪlice Thompson, one-time keyboard player for Eighties band The Woodentops, is now an established novelist, who has won praise from Ian Rankin and Stephen King. Scottish literature would be thinner without this kind of challenging and cleverly-wrought writing. The Book Collector shows a wry and sly mind at work throughout. With flayed corpses, books covered with human skin, and raging madness, this is definitely worth checking out… Source: Raven Crime Reads The precise Edwardian vocabulary began to assume a more contemporary feel in the wake of Violet’s treatment at the asylum, and this proved an interesting divergence from the general feel of the book. ![]() ★★★★ revel in the gothic darkness and inexorable drama Author: John Lloyd Source: The Bookbag Author: Lesley McDowell Source: The Independent on Sunday It’s a superb settling for betrayal and revenge. ★★★★ With a nod to Angela Carter, Thompson takes the myth of Bluebeard, the murdering husband who keeps a tally of his dead wives, sets it down in that Edwardian summer just before the guns of the First World War go off.
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